Burdokva said:
... I'm not exactly familiar with audio - I can give feedback on what sounds "right" to me, rather than comment in detail what should (or shouldn't be fixed).
What you say here reminds me when GoodMusician asked to me how did I managed the remixing for my previous work with the Star Wars soundtracks as he told me he thought it sounded professional (kind!)... I was unable to explain anything ! I'm not a technician at all with sound, though technic comes obviously when you need it. Now I can explain a bit more my cheap technics but I think I better not.
Anyway, I'm far more interested in your pair of ears than in a boring knowledge with sound.
Obi-Wan said:
... an evaluation of the work takes three or four times the length of the score. And it requires very much attention and concentration. In terms of time it requires at least 4 hours (240 minutes only).
Wow! I checked them far quicker when I began the OE !... Only it requires a bit more concentration. However with a name like Obi-Wan you shouldn't be worried about that. :)
About comparison if I can help I can see clearer now what I did with this score and the biggest lack it shows (what does not keep my set to sound better the releases) is about the EQ's mostly for a bunch of tracks from the Anthology. My EQ's made the sound more thin because I "took away" a lot more than I "added", what was fair. But this is the problem with a simple equalizer: to give relief to one particularity, you have to lower an other one... You have to "choose". (And that's especially where I was waiting some feedbacks)...
Now I found and tested an other way to deal the EQ's through a multi-layered equalization, wich is quite amazing as I can measure everything that compose the character of each cues. Then the work becomes more something like feeding the sound with what makes it the best, with less of the fragile equilibrium of the relativity lows/mediums/highs. I mean I can managed to give strenght to what I lower, as to make softer what I lift. Only it needs to prepare good layers before (and let's precise from my firts mixings) and so to know what are the ranges of frequencies that will feed the character of the cue in the best way.
Looks to me like there's more than the half of this edit to be remixed then... Please, anybody quote that! :) The OE is finished for me now. Besides, note that I haven't called my edit the "Ultimate Edition"!
Just an explanation to help exile some clouds from someone's mind.
Appreciated. :)